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Hellstromm, you are such a man.
Traditional is good. But you can have traditional without the caveman attitude as well. Taking care of children and maintaining a smooth running household is just as much work as going into an office or factory and punching a time card. It takes planning, organization, flexibility, and determination to get everything done that needs done. It's not all about watching soap operas and sitting on the couch eating bon-bonsMen should appreciate the women for doing the domestic stuff just as much as women should appreciate the men for being the breadwinner (in most cases). If both are working then the domestic stuff should be more evenly distributed. It's not a matter of equality really, it's more about making things run smoothly and everybody knowing what their expected constribution to that is.
I'm only quoting this one but responding to more than one post due to my "laziness"
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1908243,00.html
You might want to read up on that article. It had some surprising information for me. I thought divorce was fine, but perhaps not, perhaps father play a more important role than we thought, which will be interesting if those findings are verified and in fact true, may hopefully change the USA court system in awarding child custody to the mother by default (most of the time, it's changing but still heavily favors the mother)
I think cooking can be a profession or hobby, but if you have a more sensitive smell/taste, you will probably be a better cook. I can distinguish some of the spices, ingredients used in some dishes at restaurant and duplicate them at home (needs to be a cuisine I am already familiar with and played with those varied ingredients in various combination so my taste buds can recognize the combination, kinda like a sommelier can store various appelletian wine, their taste, smell and recall those data when he/she "taste" the wine) I also enjoy learning about the science behind cooking (how to maintain a certain temperature breaks down protein bonds, hence the "slow cook" idea behind pulled pork, roast pork, to make meat tender without burning them, etc.
As far as chores go, that might be more difficult for a few reasons.
1. different standards. If the husband treat as stuffing clothes into a drawer without folding = doing laundry and wife disagrees, when the husband does the "laundry" and still does it in his own bachelor way, fights can result. Same thing goes with cleaning the house, guys tend to be messier and can tolerate more compare with girls.
2. society still tend to impose "responsibility" on the wife. If you go into a house and it's messy, what would you think? (1) man, the husband is a slob. (2) man, the husband did not do a good job of cleaning up or... (3) the wife is a slob (4) the wife did not do a good job of cleaning up. I think generally speaking, if a faimly doesn't have enough income, husband will probably be blamed, on the other hand, if a household is messy, wife will probably get the blame.
No offense, even if they can genetically engineer human egg, I think I will still prefer the old fashion traditional way of procreating